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The Scourge of Folly

Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, with a pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and others [by John Davies]
Davies, John (1565?-1618)

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TO THE MOST Noble Theophilvs Lord WALDEN.
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Passages before the Booke.
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Vpon English Prouerbs.
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[To worthy Persons.]

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Epig. 191. To the wittily-pleasant, S. I. H.

In Martialls time a pleasant Poet liu'd
Height Camus, whose Spirit doth haunt me still:
If merry Martiall be from Death repriu'd
By thy mad Muse; Camus, repriue I will:
If thou be Martiall and Camus be.
Then all the world will laugh at Thee and Mee.
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